Harrison Duncan

Central Defender - Bristol Rovers
27 Dec 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Harrison Duncan

171 Edition

The Bristol Rovers Courier

5 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jack Walton keeps Bristol Rovers in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Bristol Rovers bow out of the cup

Crystal Palace go through and Bristol Rovers go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Match

No end in sight to Bristol Rovers's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bristol Rovers has to find a result from somewhere.

The dugout

Harrison Duncan says Bristol Rovers went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Benny signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benny commits to Bristol Rovers for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Bristol Rovers

Will Alves was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Dan Burn falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

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Market

Bristol Rovers and Cameron McGeehan are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

Back issues
154 Edition

The Bristol Rovers Courier

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Terms done: Brad Young is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Preston waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Bristol Rovers is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Yasir Al-Sinan puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bristol Rovers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Deportivo La Coruña come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bristol Rovers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Ryan Croasdale is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bristol Rovers is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bristol Rovers

Will Alves and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A late step up for Will Alves

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad

The step up is real for Jack Simmons

At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Cédric Kipré falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

When it matters, Ryan De Havilland plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief